Archive
- General
- BHS and BCS view Christopher's instrument collection
- Asian ventures
- Update on the V&A
- Brit Awards
- Crisis at the V&A!
- Best wishes for coloratura Christmas
- Barockstar: George Frideric Handel
- The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia
- Mendelssohn Discoveries (and gastronomic re-discoveries) in Leipzig
- The Times Cheltenham Literary Festival
- Video Interview: Christopher on Mendelssohn
- Big Ben: not by Handel
- World Première
- Christopher (the Classicist) writes to The Times
- The Fitzwilliam Museum: as seen by Christopher Hogwood
- University of Cambridge - 800th birthday
- Speech to launch V&A’s new baroque exhibition.
- Cambridge University Honorary Doctorate - Orator's Speech
- Cambridge University Honorary Doctorate
- Christopher corrects The Times
- Christopher opposes Arts Council cuts
- Halle Handel Prize
- Hear Christopher on Radio 4
- Christopher's contribution to 'Fund og Forskning'
- Happy New Year!
- Inga Nielsen CD featuring Christopher
- Christopher becomes an Honorary Member of Charles Avison Society
- De Clavicordio V
- Preface to Hawkins' history of the AAM
- De Clavicordio VI
- Emma Kirkby finally created a 'Dame'!
- Caricatures by Ane Lysebo – November 2005
- Christopher receives honorary doctorate from Zürich University
- Composers
- Food Counter
- Interviews
- Reviews
Brit Awards
February 10, 2010
As the Brit Awards approach some archive footage has been unearthed of Christopher's Brit appearance in 1985.
In 1985 Christopher won the Brit Award for Best Classical Recording for Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Academy of Ancient Music. The album was very successful, selling more copies in CD format than LP and cassette combined.
The main focus of the award was Christopher's academic approach and his intention to produce the most authentic sound possible. Interestingly, at the same ceremony was Sting, winning the award for Most Outstanding Contribution with The Police, who was very surprised that the recording could be so well received purely in virtue of the fact that it was authentic. Christopher writes on this topic in a forthcoming article, 'Musical Identity' (to be published by Cambridge University Press in Identity, part of the Darwin College Lecture Series):
"From the graphic artist's viewpoint, all musical performances are, as it were, cover versions, since only Mozart playing Mozart could be the real thing. I well remember Sting, at a Brit Awards ceremony many years ago, being surprised, and possibly a little outraged that the Academy of Ancient Music had won a prize for simply playing Vivaldi 'as he would have played it' ('You didn't do anything to it?', he asked, incredulously); now, I am intrigued to see, he records Dowland."
To see images and the video of the presentation and acceptance speech Click Here.
